[BioC] Fwd: Presentation 19th June

[Mark Robinson]

Sorry, wrong email list.

Ignore this message.

Cheers,
Mark


On 15/06/2009, at 2:25 PM, Mark Robinson wrote:

>
> apologies for those already on the CSSE list ... but might be of  
> interest.
>
> oh, and presumably the "L5 meeting room" means this:
> http://wwwgenome.csse.unimelb.edu.au/taxonomy/term/5
>
> m.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Justin Bedo <justin.bedo at nicta.com.au>
>> Date: 15 June 2009 2:07:48 PM
>> To: genomics-research at csse.unimelb.edu.au
>> Subject: Presentation 19th June
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This week's presentation will be give by two guests, Enes Makalic  
>> and Daniel
>> Schmidt, from the Centre for MEGA Epidemiology. As usual, we are in  
>> the L5
>> meeting room and will start at 9am.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Justin
>>
>> Title: An Information Theoretic Approach to Analysing GWAS Data
>>
>> Abstract: Analysis of GWAS data often proceeds by performing many  
>> independent
>> tests of association between genotypic data and phenotypes. A common
>> frequentist approach is to convert the data into contingency table  
>> form,
>> compute suitable test statistics and correct for multiple testing  
>> using a
>> Bonferroni-type procedure. This talk examines an alternative  
>> approach based on
>> information theory in which there is no requirement for either a  
>> `null'
>> hypothesis or specification of a significance level. Although not  
>> strictly a
>> Bayesian method, the resulting procedure essentially yields posterior
>> probabilities over association that can be used as an extra tool in
>> interpreting GWAS data.
>
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Mark Robinson, PhD (Melb)
Epigenetics Laboratory, Garvan
Bioinformatics Division, WEHI
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